We finally tore ourselves away from Scenic View RV park, sadly.
We had spent a very pleasant, quiet six days there, excellent hosts, good people/fellow campers, gorgeous scenery and just an excellent relaxational time.
We drove towards Seward, and after going through Sterling, and back into the mountains, we passed a sign saying that there was high wildlife crossing in the area. We did not see a giraffe ( get it, high wildlife?) but within a couple of miles a black bear scampered across the road right in front of us, and then there was a big moose grazing at the side of the road. We found our new campsite for the next couple of days, Trail River USFS site
( which is short speak for United States Forestry Service) where we are dry camping, which means no utilities but a secure, quiet, safe campsite, cheap.
We went to Exit Glacier. This is just outside Seward, and we bumped into our friends from the campsite we just left, Art and Robin.
This is a tremungimous chunk of ice, which is all shades of blue, grey and black, but no white, and is receding at an alarming rate, about 100 yards per year. I told Marlipops and Brian that we should have come here a hundred years ago, and we would not have had to walk so far.
You can walk up to the glacier, and get within about 10 feet of it. The trek to it from the parking lot was about a mile, up hill all the way, so you are perspiring when you get there, unless you are one of these hikerists, with the boots and the sticks with a compass in the end and big strides and smiles ( they make you sick) and when you reach the glacier, there is a brisk breeze blowing off the top, and you freeze your wotsits off!!
It is worth the hike, absolutely fascinating to be that close to thousands of years of nature.
We went down into Seward, had a fish and chips lunch/dinner, again, and then went to the Sealife preserve and sanctuary, where all sealife from this part of the world is studied, and taught about.
We wandered around the harbor, and saw some amazing halibut, just being offloaded from the fishy boats, one of which was 253 pounds, caught by a little bitty woman of about 65.
There was a sea otter playing around in the harbor, right under our noses, just a delight to watch as he showed off.
Today has been a good day, Brian was finally relaxing, still in awe of where he is. Great to give my big bro the vacation of a lifetime.
Wildlife watch today…………….read the blog above!!!
